HiCN Working Papers Series
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Cash and Conflict – Large-Scale Experimental Evidence from Niger
Dominic Rohner, Patrick Premand
Conflict undermines development, while poverty, in turn, breeds conflict. Policy interventions such as cash transfers could lower engagement in conflict by raising poor households’ welfare […]
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Dominic Rohner, Andrea Berlanda, Matteo Cervallati, Elena Esposito, Dominic Rohner, Uwe Sunde
The consequences of successful public health interventions for social violence and conflict are largely unknown. This paper closes this gap by evaluating the effect of […]
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Education and Conflict Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Indonesia
Dominic Rohner, Alessandro Saia
This paper studies the impact of school construction on the likelihood of conflict, drawing on a policy experiment in Indonesia, and collecting our own novel […]
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Dominic Rohner, Joan Esteban Sabine Flamand Massimo Morelli
This paper builds a dynamic theory of secessions, conflictual or peaceful, analyzing the forward looking interaction between groups in a country. The proposed framework allows […]
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Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa
Dominic Rohner, Michael D. König Mathias Thoenig Fabrizio Zilibotti
We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The […]
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Networks in Conflict: Theory and Evidence from the Great War of Africa
Dominic Rohner, Michael D. König Mathias Thoenig Fabrizio Zilibotti
We study from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective how a network of military alliances and enmities affects the intensity of a conflict. The […]
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The Geography of Inter-State Resource Wars
Dominic Rohner, Francesco Caselli Massimo Morelli
We establish a theoretical as well as empirical framework to assess the role of resource endowments and their geographic location for inter-State conflict. The main […]
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Seeds of Distrust: Conflict in Uganda
Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig Fabrizio Zilibotti
We study the effect of civil conflict on social capital, focusing on the experience of Uganda during the last decade. Using individual and county-level data, […]
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War Signals: A Theory of Trade, Trust and Conflict
Dominic Rohner, Mathias Thoenig Fabrizio Zilibottix
We construct a dynamic theory of civil conflict hinging on inter-ethnic trust and trade. The model economy is inhabited by two ethnic groups. Inter-ethnic trade […]
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Natural Resource Distribution and Multiple Forms of Civil War
Dominic Rohner, Massimo Morelli
We examine how natural resource location, rent sharing and fighting capacities of different groups matter for ethnic conflict. A new type of bargaining failure due […]
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Dominic Rohner, Joan Esteban Massimo Morelli
Since World War II there have been about fifty episodes of large-scale mass killings of civilians and massive forced displacements. They were usually meticulously planned […]
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Reputation, Group Structure and Social Tensions
Social tensions impede social cohesion and public goods provision. They can also be a driving force for more serious conflicts such as civil wars. Surprisingly, […]